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Children's Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China: Education, Religion, and Childhood

Children's Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China: Education, Religion, and Childhood

Chen, Shih-Wen Sue

Hardcover

Literary CriticismBusiness of WritingChinese History

ISBN10: 9811360820
ISBN13: 9789811360824
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 8 2019
Pages: 251
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book examines the development of Chinese children's literature from the late Qing to early Republican era. It highlights the transnational flows of knowledge, texts, and cultures during a time when children's literature in China and the West was developing rapidly. Drawing from a rich archive of periodicals, novels, tracts, primers, and textbooks, the author analyzes how Chinese children's literature published by Protestant missionaries and Chinese educators in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries presented varying notions of childhood. In this period of dramatic transition from the dynastic Qing empire to the new Republican China, young readers were offered different models of childhood, some of which challenged dominant Confucian ideas of what it meant to be a child. This volume sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of Chinese literary history. Through its contributions to the fields of children's literature, book history, missionary history, and translation studies, it enhances our understanding of the negotiations between Chinese and Western cultures that shaped the publication and reception of Chinese texts for children.

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